Birth: April-June 1866 Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, UK
Father: John Croucher 1839-1904
Mother: Jane Anne Russell 1841-1912
Christening: 7 November 1869 Whitwell, Isle of Wight, UK
Marriage: October-December 1902 Isle of Wight, UK
Wife: Agnes Banting 1867-1939
Death: 8 June 1949 Fern House, Atherley Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, UK
Nora Agnes Croucher 1902-1993
May Croucher 1906-1911
Birth of Leonard Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1866 in the Isle of Wight (2b 525).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Leonard Croucher christened in 1869 at Whitwell, Hampshire, parents John and Jane Ann Croucher.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 for Leonard Croucher on 7 November 1869 at Whitwell, Hampshire, parents John and Jane Ann Croucher.
In the 1871 census as Leonard Croucher aged 4, born in Isle of Wight, Ventnor, and living with his parents (John and Jane Ann), two brothers (Fraser and Rowland), two sisters (Florence and Maria), and two lodgers (Ernest Stagg aged 19, born in Isle of Wight, Newport, single and a carpenter, and Sarah Cooper aged 79 and a widow) at 115 St Catherine Street, Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
In the 1881 census as Leonard Croucher aged 14, born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, and living with his parents (John and Jane), two brothers (Adolphus and Rowland), and three sisters (Bertha, Lotty, and Maria) at the Wellington Hotel, High Street, Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
In the 1891 census as Leonard Croucher aged 24, born in Ventor, Isle of Wight, single, a baker, and living with his parents (John and Jane A), two brothers (Adolphus J and Alph Jones W), and five sisters (Bertha C, Laninga R, Lotty L, Mabel B and Marcia G) in a private house in Brading, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
In the 1901 census as Leonard Croucher aged 24, born in Ventor, Isle of Wight, single, a baker, and living with his parents (John and Jane A), two brothers (Adolphus J and Alph Jones W), and five sisters (Bertha C, Laninga R, Lotty L, Mabel B and Marcia G) in a private house in Brading, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Marriage of Leonard Croucher and Agnes Banting in FreeBMD in October-December 1902 in I Wight (2b 1454).
His first daughter was born in Bonchurch in 1902 and second in Shanklin in 1906.
In the 1911 Census as Leonard Croucher aged 45, born in St Catherine, Ventnor, a master baker and living with his wife (Agnes) and two daughters (May and Nora) in five rooms at Mafeking, Milford Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
His second daughter died soon after the census.
His wife died in the Isle of Wight in 1939.
Death of Leonard Croucher in FreeBMD in April-June 1949 aged 82 in Isle of Wight (6b 691).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Leonard Croucher died on 8 June 1949 in Isle of Wight probate 11 August 1949 in London. "Croucher Leonard of Fern House, Atherley-road Shanklin Isle of Wight died 8 June 1949 Probate London 11 August to Nora Croucher spinster. Effects £4386 5s."
There are eight entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Leonard Croucher born in 1867 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, parents John and Jane Ann Croucher. Another gives his birth in April 1866 in Ventnor , Isle of Wight, his marriage to Agnes Banting in 1902 and his death on 8 June 1949 in the Isle of Wight. Steve Palmer adds two daughters. Another two entries confuses him with Leonard Croucher son of Joseph Croucher and Ellen Pitt, and married to Minnie Blome..
The Isle of Wight became a separate county in 1890.
Leonard Croucher was the second great grandson of James Croucher.